Borussia Dortmund vs. PSG in UEFA Champion’s League Round Robin competition, Paris, March 11, 2020. Fortunately, thanks to John Oliver and HBO, we’ll be getting a full season of Jelly’s Marble Run coming in June.
Category: News
May 24 2020
The Breakfast Club (Grapes)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 24th Samuel Morse opens America’s first telegraph line; Four men sentenced for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Britain’s Queen Victoria born; The Brooklyn Bridge opens; Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan born. Breakfast Tune “Hard Times” and “Camptown Hornpipe” performed by Rhiannon Giddens, Banjo l Met …
May 23 2020
Going Viral
Thank goodness I seek neither fame nor reward and write for myself. If this is how things “go viral” I want no part of it. How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online By Sheera Frenkel, Ben Decker and Davey Alba, The New York Times 5/20/20 Here’s how “Plandemic” went from a niche …
May 23 2020
Problem Plays
It’s a term commonly used to describe a class of Shakespearian Plays that don’t fall into Aristotelian definitions of Comedy or Tragedy. The term itself is the coinage of F. S. Boas and his direct anology was to the Plays of Henrick Ibsen. In these problem plays, the situation faced by the protagonist is put …
May 22 2020
How bad is it?
Thanks for asking, seriously. Nearly every U.S. state had historic levels of unemployment last month, new data shows By Tony Romm, Washington Post May 22, 2020 Roughly one-quarter of the labor force in Nevada, Michigan and Hawaii is unemployed, and nearly every other state registered a record-high jobless rate last month, illustrating the historic, widespread …
May 22 2020
Corporate Corona Immunity
Well, first of all Corporations are not people and the Supremes never ruled that they were. The concept comes from the pen of a Clerk after the ruling who, in the most charitable interpretations of motive, was a dumb ass who made a huge mistake. What they are is immortal greed machines granted the privilege …
May 21 2020
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Eh, scratch that. Things are pretty much bad all over unless you’re a Billionaire slopping at the $434 Billion wealth trough they’ve added to their net worth. I can barely begin to tell you how bad the Economy is and how long it’s going to take to recover and it really irks me that Nancy …
May 21 2020
Thuggee Theory And Practice
Some suggest that Thugs were an invention of the British Raj to justify their Imperialism. Other sources posit a strictly criminal motivation (think Mafia families). While they had their own cant and rituals they were probably not Kali (who was much more complex than a simple “Death Goddess” like Hela) worshippers despite Temple of Doom …
May 20 2020
A Conversion Experience
So the story goes a little something like this- Saul, a Roman Soldier, was on the road to Damascus when Jesus Christ appeared in front of him. Along with miracles to establish his bona fides Jesus told Saul the Kingdom of Heaven was open to all that believed in Him through the unmerited Grace of …